Charles Petzold has been generating many interesting blog posts dealing with WPF/XAML. As part of his book writing effort ( Applications = Markup +Code ), he even created a XAMLPad like application called XAML Cruncher. It added a number of interesting

Just watched a short interview with IBloks showing off their new WPF application. I like Dancing man. I'm going to sign up for the beta...looking at their site it looks like they will sell backgrounds for $.99 and a game for $9.99 and media. Interesting

I just posted a set of 5 wpf technology demos that work on the January 2006 CTP showing: http://robrelyea.com/demos/wpfDemoShell Contains working versions of the following demos: Data Visualization (Auction items) Flow Document Layout (basic panels, layout

At the PDC, developers could try it out in the hands on labs. On Channel 9 last year, you could see demos . Now, you can download its first CTP (Customer Tech Preview) and check out a new Channel 9 video . I'm fantastically excited to see the first CTP

The much anticipated release of our November 2005 CTP of WinFX is here. See Tom Archer 's announcement with pointers to the installs. Karsten also posts some good information about the release. This is the last time you'll need to uninstall/clean your

Many people say that Databinding is one of the more impactful of the features in WPF. Namita wrote a great set of demos for her PDC talk about Databinding with WPF . As part of a few talks (some VB customers, a Vista + WPF talk , a talk at the Borland

I already see many queries about a build of WinFX that works with the just released VS/.Net Framework: 1 2 3 ... I've updated the information in my blog post about our installing our current CTP with the text in bold: Sorry, there is currently no build

If you are doing WinFX development with the WinFX September CTP you should stick with Windows Vista 5219 (PDC release) or XP or Server 2003 for now. Windows Vista 5231 released yesterday to msdn members (and other beta participants) is not compatible

I enjoyed reading Chris' recap of the presentation that he and Doug Purdy did at the PDC. I forget who grabbed me or called me, but I was able to grab one of the WPF team's demo machines and bring it to Chris. It turns out his machine came to life in

Critical Update (11/18/2005) No reason to install the PDC (Sept 2005) CTP of WinFX anymore. November 2005 CTP is now out ! PDC 2005! Having a great time at PDC2005! Man, am I excited. We had the "Ask the Experts" session last night at the pdc. I sat at

Drew Marsh asked a good question recently about why we didn't Uri-ize the Definition xmlns yet... I answered via a comment here . Keep raising issues that you don't see getting fixed... Thanks, Rob PS. Making any breaking change is way too expensive.

Drew Marsh wrote a great intro to those topics today. I'll add a few things...Drew covers the concept of Attached Properties. He should update the post to include examples of non-attached properties as well... We have tried to make the fact that DependencyProperties

Gaston Milano is a self-proclaimed “VS man” - so he wanted a XAML Viewer that worked inside of Visual Studio Whidbey. So he wrote one ! Screen shots look great! (I just left a comment with my problems getting it running on Visual C# Express

I saw Joe Duffy 's post about the Avalon CTP where he said: “And it's compatible with the Express SKUs as well.“ Our team only tested the Avalon CTP with the Express SKUs briefly. We found one major problem (and weren't able to fix it for

First, PDC 2003. Second, WinHec 2004. Now an Avalon Customer Tech Preview! Three interesting links way below that I stole from http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/ . First, a link to the bits for MSDN members. Second, a link to online documentation and

We have a bit of a mess in our processing for attributes. First, a list of the mess, then a brief description of the fix we plan. Attribute values in xaml can map to: 1) a Literal value <Balloon Color=”Red” /> We use the type converter

Among other things, I (and my teammates) have spent much of the last year designing significant improvements to xaml2003 that you saw at the PDC in October 2003. While we have spent a lot of time investing in design, we haven't implemented many of the